I have a website built with ReactJS and there are some files (PDF,DOC etc) that I want to let visitors download.
But simple href tag doesn't start the download, instead refresh the page.
<Button
href="src/assets/files/exampleDoc.pdf"
color="transparent"
target="_blank"
className={classes.navLink}
>href tag doesn't work in reactJS to download files?
The following approach worked for me.
import ExampleDoc from '......src/assets/files/exampleDoc.pdf'
<a href={ExampleDoc} download="MyExampleDoc" target='_blank'>
<Button className={classes.navLink}>My Example Doc</Button>
</a>
If your file is on the frontend side and you are not storing it in backend you can do trigger the download by using the <a> tag in HTML. Try the following
<a href={require("../path/to/file.pdf")} download="myFile">Download file</a>
Try this:
const DownloadButton = props => {
const downloadFile = () => {
window.location.href = "https://yoursite.com/src/assets/files/exampleDoc.pdf"
}
return (
<button onClick={downloadFile} />
)
}
export default DownloadButton;
history will navigate the page away actually to the path provided. This was great, thanks!for you first question you can check this it working
<Button
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color="transparent"
target="_blank"
download>Download
</Button>
you can have a look hover here https://react.rocks/example/downloadbutton
function makeFile() {
return {
mime: 'text/plain',
filename: 'myexportedfile.txt',
contents: 'all of the exports',
}
}
<DownloadButton
className='waves-effect waves-light btn'
genFile={makeFile}/>
I think, this will work perfectly fine:-
<a href="assets/img/Rishabh-Singh-Resume.pdf" download="Rishabh's Resume" target='_blank'>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-lg btn-block">Download Resume</button>
</a>
Content-Type and Content-Disposition response headers to the download file API as such:Content-Type: application/octet-streamContent-Disposition: attachment; filename="preferred-filename.file-extension"In a regular HTTP response, the Content-Disposition response header is a header indicating if the content is expected to be displayed inline in the browser, that is, as a Web page or as part of a Web page, or as an attachment, that is downloaded and saved locally.
Taken from Mozilla docs
onClick of your button write this, this will trigger browser's download file functionalityconst url = 'https://url-to.download/file/api';
const link = document.createElement('a');
link.target = '_blank';
link.href = url;
link.download = 'preferred-filename.file-extension';
link.click();
<Button
href="src/assets/files/exampleDoc.pdf"
color="transparent"
target="_blank"
className={classes.navLink}
>
<Button
href="src/assets/files/exampleDoc.pdf"
color="transparent"
target="_blank"
className={classes.navLink}
>
yes </Button>